Dear Santa

December 23, 2007 at 1:25 AM

I have been nice this year (if you take out those times during orchestra practice where my stand partner and I swayed to the music of the flutes a little to enthusiastically while we were counting several bars of rests, or when we organized a "viola only" potluck snack during intermission)...

For Christmas I would like:1 - Absolutely perfect 100% of the time intonation2 - Vibrato on the Cing3 - A better bow-hold4 - Effortless shifts to the end of the fingerboard5 - The ability to memorize a piece after reading it through ONCE6 - Arm vibrato7 - The original Tertis Model viola8 - To win the concerto competition